Pulmonary nodules at risk in patients undergoing liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma

Transplant International

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 850-856

  Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a,b   Kuehl, Hilmar ^a   Sgourakis, George ^a   Molmenti, Ernesto P ^a   Beckebaum, Susanne ^a   Cicinnati, Vito R ^a   Baba, Hideo A ^a   Schmitz, Klaus J ^a   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a   Lang, Hauke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drop out; Granuloma; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Lesion; Liver; Lung; Nodule; Pulmonary; Recurrence; Transplantation; Tumor; Tumor necrosis; Waiting list

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FIBROMA; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG FIBROMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49749103208     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2008.00688.x     Document Type: Article

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